A Kentucky county clerk on Thursday again denied a same-sex couple's request for a marriage license, despite a federal appeals court order. Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan county, has declined to extend marriage licenses to same-sex couples following...

The Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law Thursday, finding that it would have placed unconstitutional regulations on Medicaid coverage of abortions to the detriment of low-income women. The case was...

A Travis county judge on Friday denied a request for a temporary restraining order meant to halt the University of Texas at Austin's efforts to relocate a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The university's plan to...

Google filed a response Thursday to the European Commission (EC) , rejecting EU antitrust charges that Google structures its search results to favor its own services over those of rivals. The EU's investigation of Google over...

Guatemalan judicial authorities must prevent further "obstruction of justice" in the ongoing genocide trial against the former dictator and the former chief of intelliegence, according to a statement by two experts from the UN Office of the...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on Thursday filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of a new Indiana statute that prohibits voters from sharing pictures of their ballots on social media. The ACLU...

Serbian prosecutors on Thursday charged former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric with war crimes against prisoners of war in 1992. Oric is accused of involvment in the killing of three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in the...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that requiring a person to show photographic identification before entering a courtroom does not constitute a "partial courtroom closure" and "was too trivial to constitute a true closure."...

A spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lambert Mende, announced Wednesday that President Joseph Kabila signed parliament-approved legislation to keep elections on a timeline that will not violate the Constitution . Beginning in...

Chinese authorities arrested twelve individuals Thursday for illegally storing dangerous materials that led to the Tianjin warehouse explosions, which killed at least 139 people. Those arrested include Yu Xuewei, chairman of Tianjin International Ruihai Logistics Co. Ltd.,...